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NASA’s first X-43A crashed into the Pacific in 2001 — the two that followed set hypersonic records no aircraft has beaten in 22 years
In the early 2000s, NASA was among the first to achieve sustained hypersonic flight. As part of the broader Hyper-X program, ...
Twenty-two years after NASA sent the X-43A screaming across the Pacific at Mach 9.6, the United States is spending heavily to ...
Record-breaking flight: In 2004, NASA’s X‑43A reached Mach 9.6, setting a still‑unbroken speed record for an air‑breathing aircraft. Pioneering scramjet tech: The Hyper‑X program proved scramjets ...
NASA has slipped the next test of the X-43A hypersonic testbed until late January 2004, because of an intermittent failure in an actuator associated with its air-launched Pegasus booster. NASA's B-52 ...
NASA’s second attempt to fly an X-43A air-breathing hypersonic test aircraft is set for mid-December. The first effort ended with the destruction of the vehicle over the Pacific on 2 June 2001.
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